Case Studies
The work, with the numbers left in.
Every project below shows the real scope: what the space was, what went wrong, what it cost and how long it took. Including the parts that did not go to plan.
- Projects shown
- 6
- Sectors
- 6
- Typical span
- 15–26 wks
- Region
- Ontario
Quick-Service Restaurant
Quick-Service Franchise, Second-Generation Unit
Kitchener, ON
A first-time franchisee took a second-generation unit to save money, then found the gas service was undersized for the franchise equipment package. The open date held anyway.
- Size
- 1,850 sq ft
- Timeline
- 19 weeks, blueprint to open
- Budget
- $310K–$395K
Full-Service Restaurant
Full-Service Restaurant in a Cold Shell
Waterloo, ON
An independent ownership group took a cold shell in a new Waterloo development. No services, no interceptor, no patio approval — 112 seats and a licensed bar, 24 weeks later.
- Size
- 3,400 sq ft
- Timeline
- 24 weeks, blueprint to open
- Budget
- $870K–$1.08M
Grocery / Specialty Food Retail
International Grocery with Butcher, Bakery and Hot Table
Cambridge, ON
A two-location grocery operator took over a vacated anchor unit for their third store. Refrigeration, a butcher counter and a hot table turned a retail fit-out into a food-premises project.
- Size
- 9,200 sq ft
- Timeline
- 25 weeks, blueprint to open
- Budget
- $1.4M–$1.75M
Bakery & Café
Artisan Bakery Café in a Heritage Main-Street Building
Guelph, ON
A former dry-goods retail unit in a 1918 downtown building, converted to a production bakery and 34-seat café. Change of use, a two-tonne deck oven and a washroom that had to grow.
- Size
- 1,600 sq ft
- Timeline
- 21 weeks, blueprint to open
- Budget
- $290K–$360K
Ghost Kitchen / Commissary
Six-Suite Ghost Kitchen and Shared Commissary
Mississauga, ON
A cold-shell industrial unit converted into six independently licensable kitchen suites with shared cold storage, dish and dispatch. Three licensed and producing on opening day.
- Size
- 6,800 sq ft
- Timeline
- 26 weeks, blueprint to open
- Budget
- $1.75M–$2.15M
Beverage Franchise
Bubble Tea Franchise, Enclosed Mall Inline Unit
London, ON
A small footprint, a landlord design manual, no gas service and a franchisor with fixed standards. The constraints were the easy part; the coordination was the work.
- Size
- 980 sq ft
- Timeline
- 15 weeks, blueprint to open
- Budget
- $215K–$275K
Your project
Yours will have its own surprises.
Every one of these had something the drawings could not predict. The difference is whether somebody has seen it before and already knows what it costs to fix.
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